If you squint, a cafe and a food truck might qualify as shops? Lots of people sleeping in their campers on the parking lot across the street. Is the day ferry cheaper or why didn’t the sleep on the boat?)
There is a direct service from the port in Harwich to London, but they didn’t sell advance tickets for it and it doesn’t have first class. So a quick three minute change at the lovely, quiet junction station of Manningtree it is.
London Liverpool Street. I need to be at Waterloo in four hours and have not the faintest idea what to do. I guess I’ll just start walking and see what comes up.
There’s some sort of wayfinding marathon going on. People in running gear with paper maps all over the place. They are too quick to read what it says on their starting number label.
If you visit a big city, consider not doing museums and sights but just wander around. This is so much easier now with maps on the phone – you can plot routes through cute back alleys rather than always walking along crowded main streets. But you get to see the city, breathe the city, and get a glimpse into living the city.
Why is it called “Southampton Airport (Parkway)” if the airport is right be the station? I thought “parkway” was the euphemism for a station away from anywhere useful?
The Boat is reporting to travel from Zeebrugge to Southampton but is currently 30 or so miles south of Dorchester heading west? Are they chasing a nice sunset over Devon?
Good morning from a sunny Southampton where I now have five hours to kill. Let’s start with the statue of Isaac Watts, inventor of the … gravitational steam engine, maybe?
German word of the day: Fotowolke. Lit: photo cloud, the cloud the moves in front of the sun seconds before the train you’ve been waiting hours for passes on an otherwise scorchingly sunny day.
Boarding was fairly airline-y except that the security checks were staffed with pensioners for some reason and nobody is in a hurry. Someone misread my boarding pass and send me down priority lane, so it was all done in no time at all.
Ahoy from 3158 nautical miles later and the other side of the Atlantic. Quite sad to leave the ship, really (and not because I’ve been stuck in US immigration for hours now).
If you fancy crossing the Atlantic by ship but have your doubts about the whole cruise aspect of the voyage, don’t worry about that. Cunard sure do their thing with the dress code and the Gala dinners and the theatre performances and all of it, but they also make very sure you don’t have to take part. And the ship is big enough to always find a quiet corner for yourself.
But stepping outside at any time and seeing nothing but the endlessness of the ocean for days is quite the experience.
Since I couldn’t get a decent picture in Southampton, I took the ferry to Governors Island in New York. Here she is, then, the world’s only remaining ocean liner.
Grand Central Terminal may be grand, but Grand Central Platforms are cramped, dark, hot, and noisy. Which isn’t helped by these diesels sitting there not quite idling (presumably to keep the train’s aircon running).
But back to walking. I’m only down to 42nd street – it’s a long way to the tip of Manhattan at South Ferry. Well more than 42 blocks, in fact. There are plenty more streets south of 1st street but they are older than the grid and have names.
Turkey is promoting itself as a partner in sustainable development by driving gas-powered trucks with LED billboards through the already grid-locked streets of Manhattan. You can’t make this stuff up.
Ah, so US is going to ban connected cars. A good measure actually, and the rationale is conclusive. But why stop at those from China? Connected cars are a security and privacy nightmare, regardless of the country.
NGI Assure, the program aimed at improving trust in our digital society, successfully concluded after its 4 year run.
[1]152 teams contributed to a more trustworthy & secure internet with their Free and Open Source projects. Thank you all!
We've made a book showcasing all the projects which you can download from the link below. There are also paper copies, so ask for those when you see us IRL.
XMPP because Discord is evil, IRC doesn't do what I need, and Matrix is slow and buggy. All XMPP needs is a good client, and because I'm on Linux, I can use @dino (wish it was cross-platform, but that feels like asking for too much)
Of course I also use Matrix because that's what everyone else uses, but that doesn't mean I can't be annoyed with it
20 years of Canonical #Ubuntu #Linuxubuntu.com/20years Long-time Linux user here, currently on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Daily driver for managing VMs, K8S, Docker, etc. on AWS and other providers. Ubuntu is a great intro to Linux, with a rich dev experience. Congrats to Canonical. Keep it up the good work.
I remember when my university mate told me about weird Debian based distro which should be delivered to him for free, via post, on a CD...
We, Debian folks, tended to look from above, but started to accept it over time as viable alternative, especially if we wanted to get some newbie on board.
I made two podcasts from the files of the MMORPG I play, Mist World, with the new Google Overview tool of NotebookLM. Listen to them: eurpod.com/mist_podcast.mp3 eurpod.com/mist_podcast2.mp3 Both are a bit different. In my opinion, the second is worse, the more technical data and help I fed it. Oh and that stuff about gender mentioned in the first podcast? It's an AI halucination since nothing about it it gets mentioned in the docs. Kind of funny as it's a classic bias almost.
Maybe 3rd time will be the charm on this Google Podcast stuff after work I can try it further. Next time I'm not directly uploading files. The fact that it saw file names and put them in the recording like that, well, I don't like. More importantly, I can't figure out a way to remove sources, so now I'm stuck and have to make a new notebook fully. I think anyway. The UX needs polish for sure.
Erinnert ihr euch an die @correctiv_org -Recherche zum Geheimtreffen von Potsdam? Sie wurde nur durch die Unterstützung von tausenden Spenderinnen und Spendern möglich. CORRECTIV ist weiter auf Unterstützung angewiesen um noch effektiver rechtsextreme Netzwerke zu enthüllen. Wer kann, spendet hier: startnext.com/correctiv
Ich liebe mein encrypt.to-Formular. Habe durch keine Maßnahme so viele verschlüsselte Mails bekommen wie dadurch. Eigentlich sollten alle Kontaktformulare für Seelsorger:innen so gebaut sein (jaja, man wird ja wohl noch träumen dürfen).
I disagree with this guy that you can't describe images from WhatsApp. You open the message, find View Photo, and instead of tapping it, invoke Describe Image. It is very simple, and I suggest he didn't know how to do it.
Zprávobot.news po reinstalaci běží, zprávobotíci jsou obnovení, tak ještě dát jim trochu krmení, aby neumřeli hlady.
Zvažte proto prosím svůj příspěvek na jejich provoz, ať už pravidelný prostřednictvím Forendors a Ko-Fi, nebo jednorázový přes QR kód, bankovní převod nebo Revolut.
Apparently you're not supporting IMAP. Is your "desktop client" at least an actual client that I can use to download my mail, or just another Electron wrapper around a website that I can't use offline? Been trying to get an answer for that for a while now.
hey! yesterday we had something happen outside of our control that basically sets us back like a thousand dollars and are now stuck between a rock and a hard place with a potential eviction on the horizon and my ID expiring. Awesome. Fuck Yeah. Amazing. this is eating into our emergency housing fund which is Not Great when there's like a 30% chance I'll be evicted soon.
"By not showering for two whole weeks, you enabled an AI Facebook bot to create and post several images of Jesus eating breakfast at a Denny’s, which ultimately convinced 837,000 people that Christ had returned to Earth. Did you notice his legs are two dolphin tails? You’re the only one who did."
Today in 1959 Dave Brubeck quartet released their single "Take Five". It's one of the Jazz standards today, was used in several movie sound tracks and still receives a significant radio airtime.
The song was not written by Dave Brubeck as many believe but by Paul Desmond (on saxophon).
🔜 A Coruña: Manifestación ás 20h no Obelisco. 🔜 Compostela: Manifestación ás 12h na Praza Roxa e concentración ás 19h na Praza do Obradoiro. 🔜 Pontevedra: Manifestación ás 20h en Loureiro Crespo, fronte ao Hospital Provincial. 🔜 Vigo: Manifestación ás 19h fronte ao Marco. 🔜 Ferrol: Manifestación ás 20h na Praza Vella. 🔜 Redondela: Concentración ás 11h en Alfonso XII, fronte ao BBVA [2/2]
@Cyb3rrunn3r ich wundere mich ja auch, dass eine "gesichert rechtsextreme" Partei überhaupt zur Wahl antreten darf. Aber darum geht es an dieser Stelle nicht. Hier geht es um ein so genanntes "Sicherheitspaket", das seinen Namen nicht verdient, und klar am Ziel vorbei schießt. Statt mehr Sicherheit schafft es eher mehr Probleme. Lösen tut es eher keine...
!["If Al is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die," he said, looking out to the crowd from center stage. "So many of you feel imminently replaceable."
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We won't find out until we grow.
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in reply to Martin Hoffmann • • •“Welcome to this service for Manningtree. We will be calling at: Manningtree. The next stop will be Manningtree.”
So, Manningtree, huh!?
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in reply to Martin Hoffmann • • •Well that was a hell of a lot of fun! And I didn’t even manage to do Westminster. Guess we’ll have to come back some other time.
Back to trains now.
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some reason and nobody is in a hurry. Someone misread my boarding pass and send me down priority lane, so it was all done in no time at all.
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in reply to Martin Hoffmann • • •If you fancy crossing the Atlantic by ship but have your doubts about the whole cruise aspect of the voyage, don’t worry about that. Cunard sure do their thing with the dress code and the Gala dinners and the theatre performances and all of it, but they also make very sure you don’t have to take part. And the ship is big enough to always find a quiet corner for yourself.
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in reply to Martin Hoffmann • • •Elevators are the motor car of vertical transportation: very convenient but also horribly inefficient.
(Sent from the lobby while the two cars are dancing around in the double digit floors.)
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